Mini-Review: GUIs for youtube-dl

Although I mostly use FlashGot to download Youtube videos (and also media from other websites), sometimes I turned to youtube-dl when I want to download multiple videos, subtitles, or playlists. It’s a great app, but I’ll always prefer a GUI. I suck at remembering commands, I even have to open the man page most of the time.

Fortunately, some generous people have made GUIs for this app…

YouTube DL GUI

If you want youtube-dl to be more user friendly without sacrificing features, this app will suit you. Behind its simple interface, there’s a lot of options, including video format selection, video-audio conversion, subtitles, custom filenames, authentication, and after-download shutdown. It doesn’t represent all features youtube-dl has to offer, but you can add your own commands from the Options.

YouTube DL GUI can be downloaded from Github (Windows versions are also available there) or Webupd8’s PPA: